The Forsythe Company's Nowhere & Everywhere at the Same Time

ES The space looked amazing and bigger than I have ever seen it.

SK Yeah, normally when you walk into this space you never realise the height of it, but all the pendulums really emphasised it and it was incredible when they at one point were swinging at the same time, but in different timings.

ES Yeah, the dancers worked through the space to swing them - it was like a wave trough the whole stage, very ethereal.

ES Someone was saying that it would be amazing to be on the bridge as the pendulums were swinging like that, but actually when we went onto the bridge later you couldn’t see the pendulums at all because the wires weren’t lit from that angle, whereas when you were levelled with them it looked like the whole floor was moving. But the dancers didn’t look like there was any restriction in the space.

SK Also, it was nice how they’d come out to the side and stand just next to you - you really felt their presence and how they’d just been dancing, it made you feel part of the installation.

ES What did you think about the dancing in general?

SK Having seen 'You Made Me a Monster' and 'Decreation', I was a bit disappointed because I had expected movements of a more pedestrian kind. The running and walking through the space was what I enjoyed the most and could relate to, also in relation to the pendulums and the space around, but there was quite a lot of soloing and exploring things within their own body, which is fine but I couldn’t relate to it so much. For example when they suddenly ran through the space it was really powerful... and everyone watching went WOW.

ES Yeah I felt the same, but some of their soloing was great to watch though, I mean I don’t know much about Forsythe improvisation I’ve never done it, but you got the impression from watching them that there was a lot of thinking going on and they were really concentrating which made their movement seem very authentic.

SK I did a workshop in Vienna and read a lot about Forsythe improvisation, and yeah it’s very complex and so you really have to think, though it depends on what the instructions are I guess, but it’s so different to what you normally do, it’s a very internal process and you have to concentrate so hard. But yeah, I agree this shows in the performers.

Nowhere & Everywhere at the Same Time by The Forsythe Company Thursday 30 April 2009, 19.00-21.00 Friday & 1 May 2009, 22.00-00.00 Tate Modern